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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1958)
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1058 THE HOUSE OF THE WEEK PAGE SIX 'Outside' Family Room Pays Dividends ly DAVID L. BOWEN One of the most popular features in home designs today is the fam ily room, a convenient space for children's play, adult recreation and informal entertainment. In most plans, it means adding an extra room to the main floor, gaining the space for this either by reducing the size of kitchen, living or dining rooms or enlarging the size of the house and thereby the price by one room. Architect Herman H. York has come up with a different way to work in the family room. Besides being more economical than the conventional method, it has ad vantages all its own. His solution is an "outside fam ily room, one of the attractive features of X-38 in the House of the Week series of distinguished custom-designed homes. The family room in this plan is simply a screened-in area bordered by the dining room and bedroom ball on two sides, the kitchen on the third and the great outdoors on the fourth. This provides the desired relaxation space inside the normal traffic pattern of the main section of the house for most of the year at considerably ' reduced cost. The "outdoor" treatment means that much of the noise and confusion always produced by chil dren at play is removed from the indoors area. X-38 also has provision for comfortably large and heated rec reation room in the basement, so that during cold weather restless children need not invade the for mal entertainment rooms. This outdoor family room is just one unique feature of the plan. A careful look will show these oth ' " """ Iwmi if" THIS ONE-STORY contemporary ranch has a unique "out side" family room, providing convenient main floor relaxa tion and play space at far lower cost than usual for this luxury feature. The compact plan provides six additional rooms on the ground level, plus an all-weather recreation room in the basement. BOIIER RM. flHi uhc. iii c RECREATION RM , I lM-91 i- (oiicxu) pp . OPtN CELLAR . IMXC. j . BASEMENT PLAN: Lower level recreation room provides space for children's play or informal entertaining during cold weather. The recreation room and bath can be roughed in during original construction and finished later. BtD RM. """4 fjjr ttRRACC W InLlJ f jSv ' 7 J L' KITCHIN " I iij VMM- t 11 1 1 1 1 " Off CAR "Ji ' I cl. GARAGE 1 1 f-r-t w'.io 1 . . .' roYini LIVING RM. tBEDRM -iWll FIRST FLOOR: The plan shows the convenient central loca tion of the kitchen and screened-in family room. Garage width was held to minimum, but could be expanded at low cost. length ot Minimum extended across the entire long ducted in the living room and the wall to form a pantry, an unusual casual living encouraged down- The Living Area feature in a house of this size, stairs. The lower recreation room While the, living room dimen- Control of the rear play areas1'8 15 bV 22 feet- " can be fin- . ... ,j .. sions are shown as 12 by 17, the is provided by large window areas after occupation, if budget Storage Statistics of the garage, which .could b. over-all length in the finished opening on the screen-in family planning is necessary. Because the main floor area has aone at low cost. home would appear much more room -and overlooking the rear ter- ... been kept to medium size, the ma- . iwnie.wioiis because the width of the glamor-race and yard. - ' P 9 r storage areas are located in 4J'L nLh" on entranra fmwr mut .ic,ir..v . The three bedrooms are erouned t . 49 and depth of 428 . is not included in the figure And Th CosuJ Area around a center hall and bath. The me asemenl- ine " of base- )ot recommended is 65' by 100'. riinin m i ' rm. t.4 t main hpfirnnm i arliaront in ih ment, not including recreation The habitable area is 1.248 square ........ s .win mm ii j ii ft ivum me 1 11c i-uuvcimriu luniiiy tuvill tail -- J - . . . . ..... , . . joined in an "L," further increas- be reached from the kitchen, the screened family room and all are room- s approximately 550 square feet with an additional 120 m the inn Ih. " ' .1 : i i . i i i nf OAnArniic gim fnr a hnmi tf leel .6 uic au ui sH'uubiicas. uining room, or mrougn suaing " ......... v. ine large xaniornia-type" awn- glass doors from the bedroom hall. ,uw unueiisiuns. ing window in the front wall of This latter opening, incidentally, the living room provides abun- makes it possible to reauii the dant light and ventilation. bathroom from the rear yard-with- Thc front facade has been de- u . , out going through other rooms. . signetLwith several details giving J Housekeeping Area , the appearance of a more expen- j The kitchen in nraMimllv Architect York has specified that hnm. Th. h -k , ,,, I dead center in the floor plan, a one .,sect,on 0,6 roof ov.er ,the its wooden trellis, carried beyond location calculated to save tbeffm,,y room e '"nslufent, p.Iaus; the end of the house, adds very busy mother steps. If a circula- ic',1ass,"'1f Plent,fuI natural hht little cost but continues a hori tion diagram were drawn, the e kltcheii. zontal line making the house ap- kitchen would be at the hub with . The front entrance foyer with its pear to be about six feet longer radial spokes going out in all di- stairs leading to the basement rec- than it actually is. The 16-inch rections. reation area acts as a buffer be- overhang on each gable also adds The kitchen cabinets have been tween the formal entertaining con- to the appearance of length. Additional storage can be outdoor family room and 200 in provided by increasing the width the garage. The Exterior GLAMOROUS ENTRANCE FOYER: The slate-floored foyer with its eye-catch ing iron rail ings sets the tone of elegance in the living room. Kitchen is opposite the foyer; dining room at the right. Send this coupon for your STUDY PLAN YOU CAN GET a study plan for The House of The Week by filling in your name and address on the coupon on this page and sending it with 35 cents to this newspaper. This study plan shows each floor of the house together with each of the four elevations, front, rear and sides of the house. It is scaled at 'A -inch per foot. It includes a guide on "How to Get Your House Built" You can take this study plan to your bank or other mortgage lender and to your builder and get rough estimates on the cost of construction in this area, as well as an idea of the cost in relation to your budget. With this information you will know whether you will want to proceed with construction by order ing working blueprints direct from the architect and asking for bids for the work. STUDY PLAN ORDER COUPON j Building Editor: Enclosed is 35 cents. Please send me a copy ! of the study plon of The House of The Week, X-38 J Name (pletw print) Stmt ' Of, State